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Topic: Is this place getting sluggish? (Read 27143 times)

Well, your SQL server is still lousy...timed the forums home page this PM at 36 seconds to load the URL and no content and luckily several posts saved in Notepad before posting so not lost on hitting POST..your SQL server still lousy whatever the tech bods did.

To be fair, the "hang 5" (or 35, 36. 37...) is only intermittently annoying to me. Most times the forum is working fine for me. Why I think it's prob the SQL server (or the PHP/SQL server interfacing..same thing in my book) is the hang seems to happen on key I-need-to-query-the-database moments eg sending a PM, homepage, logging in, and posting. But it is kinda annoying, and now, well, part of the experience so to speak.

On the other hand, it makes me thing twice before posting, so maybe that's a good thing

No, it's clearly not fixed yet. Peter and the IT guys were working on this full time today. Upon trying to upload a Forums software update, we started experiencing site-wide problems and experienced a server crash or two. We're going to try upgrading the software again this weekend, once traffic to the rest of AIDSmeds.com and POZ.com slows down.

Look guys, I'm asking for a little more patience until we've resolved this major problem. This hasn't been easy on anyone. We simply haven't had the resources to get to this until recently, and with the sluggishness -- and time outs -- getting worse as of recent, we've made this our top priority. Again, we're doing everything we can... and I'd appreciate it if some of you'd keep the caustic remarks to yourself.

Wow, thanks guys! The forums haven't seemed this quick in many weeks. It's like the difference between dial-up and broadband. I'm sure we all appreciate the work that it took to correct whatever the problem was.

Thanks, everyone. So far, so good. It's 9am EDT right now, and I've just started building a huge search index for the forums -- we deleted the old one prior to moving the database to it's new home/server. A search index helps make forums searches more efficient.

Creating this index actually puts a heavy load on the new server, so over the next 45 minutes, I'd love to know if anyone experiences any sluggishness or pages failing to load.

Thanks so much, and I'm so glad that things are running smoothly again. It was terrible while you were offline. I actually had to go outside and do some yardwork. To top it off, I even took my new bicycle out for a ride. It was terrible out there in all that sunshine and fresh air.

Thank goodness I'm back inside now, huddled in front of the warming rays from the EMF put out by my 3 monitors.

-mikie(who remembered how to ride the bike; but didn't realize how outta shape he was. LOL)

At 13.21 London time (7:21 EST, I think), the server was sluggish and gave me this error message.----------------------------------------Connection ProblemsSorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later. ---------------------------------------

I also had trouble posting a message in the forum. The connection locked up.

The server still goes down for a few minutes* at approximately 8:15 EST. *(the longest I've noticed was ten minutes, though it's usually more like five)

This is not the same thing as the problem we've recently had - it's to do with the server rebooting. I always try to keep my eye on the time at this time of day so I can refrain from trying to post until we're back up and running again.

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

It seems better. Hey, hijack I guess but I have a question, what's the name of this forum's technology? many times it's been mentioned that the old forum ran on "Fusetalk" which I thought was quite similar to this current setup here. The reason why I'm asking is because I use another message board on Yahoo but it's sssooo different from here, as in "different: bad" ... It's not user friendly, there are no avatars, topics are never grouped (all posts come in chronologically)

I would like to know the name of our technology here so I can maybe propose it to that other board sometime in the future

I don't have near the problems on here as I do elsewhere. Besides, it's free, and better than anything else out there.

Please, Peter, don't let them change anything! I'm so sick of change. I just got a new computer at work with Office 07 and it sucks ass. What used to take me three or four clicks now takes at least ten and it doesn't give me the same results as Office 00.

OOops, I think this is for another thread. Sorry, didn't mean to hijack this topic, but please, Peter, don't let them change my Forums!